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04797aam a2200589Ma 4500 001 FF1E4FCC214611EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 030917t20032002nyuab b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 9780374528881 020 $a 0374528888 035 $a (OCoLC)53056427 040 $a IG# $b eng $c IG# $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d EXW $d HUH $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d ATPTT $d FDA $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d I8M $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCL $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a T39 $b .U35 2003 082 04 $a B $a B $2 22 100 1 $a Uglow, Jennifer S., $e author. 245 14 $a The Lunar men : $b five friends whose curiosity changed the world / $c Jenny Uglow. 250 $a First American paperback edition. 260 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $c 2003, ©2002. 300 $a xx, 588 pages : $b illustrations (some color), map ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Originally published in 2002 by Faber and Faber, Great Britain as: The lunar men : the friends who made the future. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-558) and index. 505 00 $g 40. $t 'Time is, time was. $g 2. $t Toys -- $g 3. $t Scotland -- $g 4. $t The doctor's bag -- $g 5. $t Pots -- $g 6. $t Heading for Soho -- $g 7. $t Ingenious philosophers -- $g 8. $t Reaching out -- $g 9. $t Steam -- $g 10. $t They build canals -- $g 11. $t Painting the light -- $g 12. $t Magic & mechanics -- $g 13. $t Derbyshire explorata -- $g 14. $t Chemical reactions -- $g 15. $t Trials of life -- $g 16. $t Rousseau & romance -- $g 17. $t Vases, Ormolu, silver & frogs -- $g 18. $t Running the show -- $g 19. $t Eddies -- $g 20. $t Experiements on air -- $g 21. $t 'What all the world desires' -- $g 22. $t 'Bandy'd like a shuttlecock' -- $g 23. $t Plants & passions -- $g 24. $t Conquering Cornwall -- $g 25. $t Dull earth & shining stones -- $g 26. $t Creative copying -- $g 27. $t Sons & daughters -- $g 28. $t Bringing on the artists -- $g 29. $t From the nation to the land -- $g 30. $t Fire -- $g 31. $t Boulton's blazing skies -- $g 32. $t The Linnaean row -- $g 33. $t Protecting our interests -- $g 34. $t Family & feeling -- $g 35. $t Grand projects -- $g 36. $t Turning -- $g 37. $t Riots -- $g 38. $t Handing on -- $g 39. $t 'Fire engines & Sundry works' -- $g 40. $t 'Time is, time was. 520 1 $a "In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; and the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestly, discover of oxygen and fighting radical." 520 8 $a "With a small band of allies - the chemist James Keir, the doctors William Small and William Withering (the man who put digitalis on the medical map), and two wild young followers of Rousseau, Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Thomas Day - they formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham, so called because it met at each full moon, and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals; launched balloons; named plants, gases, and minerals; changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms; and plotted to revolutionize its soul."--Jacket. 500 $a Originally published in 2002 by Faber and Faber, Great Britain as: The lunar men : the friends who made the future. 610 20 $a Lunar Society of Birmingham (England) 610 27 $a Lunar Society of Birmingham (England) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00622267 610 20 $a Lunar Society of Birmingham (England) 650 0 $a Inventors $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Scientists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Inventions $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Science $z Great Britain $x History. 650 6 $a Inventeurs $z Grande-Bretagne $v Biographies. 650 6 $a Inventions $z Grande-Bretagne $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Sciences $z Grande-Bretagne $x Histoire. 650 7 $a Inventions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977993 650 7 $a Inventors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00978052 650 7 $a Science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108176 650 7 $a Scientists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108895 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 650 0 $a Inventors $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Scientists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Inventions $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Science $z Great Britain $x History. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718081944.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF1E4FCC214611EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search